Let me highlight a few things that demonstrate how you twisted the police chief's words. (Or, let me pin most of the blame on the Friendly Ambigram Atheist.)

You wrote:

"We have a police chief in Winnipeg who thinks the solution to crime in his city is to pray a lot."

But the police chief said:

"I truly believe that prayer will be a significant piece of that." ...“What would happen if we all just truly — I’m talking about all religious stripes here — started praying for the peace of this city and then actually started putting some action behind that?”